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Four books on sibling relationships and rivalries

In this week’s Please Discuss, Katharine Whittemore looks at book about siblings: Keffrey Kluger’s “The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us’’; Frank J. Sulloway’s “Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives’’; Jeanne Safer’s “Cain’s Legacy: Liberating Siblings from a Lifetime of Rage, Shame, Secrecy and Regret’’; and Douglas W. Mock’s “More Than Kin and Less Than Kind: The Evolution of Family Conflict.’’

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